Re: Cannot exec in my own directory

> Just out of curiosity, have you been able to run even the most basic of > scripts from PHP, like a plain old BASH 'echo' statement or something? I > only ask, because sometimes within the shell scripts themselves are > calls to other command line programs (even something as simple as 'ls') > which need to be called using their full path because Apache has a > different path for shell scripts. ls, pwd, and other commands run fine. The only command in the called shell script is /usr/bin/mysqldump which for some reason out of habit I always type with the full path! > Also, you said you used include files > in that same area. Is it possible that you are also trying to use one of > them inside your shell script, but because the paths are different, the > system cannot find the things you expect it to? > No, there are no other files included in this instance. I only mentioned it to show that PHP can read from that directory. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il